I do hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. I know mine was really nice. I haven’t been here because I’ve spent the last week working my ass of to get things ready for Christmas. I primed a wall in the dining room that had been neglected; I built a piece of art to put on the wall because the base for the artwork has been leaning against the wall for months. It’s basically a 6 x 4 frame that looks like 12 window panes. I decided to put wrapping paper on it to make it look like a winter scene out the windows. Then we hung it on the primed wall. I’m not artistic by any means but it came out looking really nice and everyone commented on it.
I attended Ty’s holiday party on Thursday and their dad picked them up around 5:30. I spent that evening doing the beginning of the house cleaning. Later in the night I sat on my bed Skyping with Joe while I wrapped gifts. He had to sign off about 11:00 because he’d worked all day and was tired but I kept at it and finally, at 3:00a.m. was done with all my wrapping and turned in for the night. The next day, Christmas Eve, Kara and her boys went to her parents’ house and Kara dropped her boys off to their dad for a couple of hours. I spent the day really cleaning the house until it sparkled.
After I had some dinner, I got out the gifts for Kara’s boys and began wrapping for her since she hadn’t had a chance to get any of it done. I watched some stuff on Netflix and wrapped in peace. She warned me when they were on their way home so I could get things put away and as soon as the boys were asleep she and I put on “A Christmas Story” in her room and finished wrapping. We were done by 12:30 but waited an hour before we put everything out under the tree. Then we came down here and did the same thing. We both finally got to bed around 3:00a.m. again. Imagine the exhaustion between the two of us.
Christmas day was just as hectic. We opened gifts with her boys, then had to get dinner started for the family dinner. Her whole family attends so there was a lot of food to be prepared. We had to start the prime rib at 9:00 just so it would be done in time. Twenty-five pounds of beef is heavy and takes a while to cook the way we were doing it. Everything turned out really great, though, and my kids arrived home around 4:30 so we opened their gifts down here and then we all had dinner with Kara’s family. I’m not used to big family functions and don’t usually like them but this one was really nice. Even through all the chaos and noise it was an enjoyable experience.
When the day finally ended we had loads of dishes to clean up and five very tired kids to put to bed. We actually just got all the dishes finished up today, believe it or not. We’ve had to fill and run the dishwasher three times in two days, and do the rest by hand. Since we still had to feed the kids, the dishes kept getting behind but we got them all done; with the exception of one roasting pan that I refuse to wash. I told Kara, laughingly, that she gets to do that one. She agreed.
The post holiday clean-up is done and there are only two or three other projects we have to finish before we can completely relax. They will all be done by the end of the week so we’ll be able to ring in the new year without having anything left on our to-do lists. YEA!! I can’t wait. I’m actually glad I finally get to sit here tonight and fill you all in on my busy-but-not-so-exciting life. Lately, by the time I get down here I’m too beat to even think of anything to say. But I’m back now and ready to put the holidays behind me until next year. I know, you’re probably breathing a sigh of relief that you can stop hearing about all the shit I do during the day. I’m glad too. Now I can go back to talking about topics that we all enjoy and question and deal with on a daily basis. I’ll come up with some good ones; I promise. Just hang in there with me and my writing will get more interesting. That’s my Christmas gift to you.
Until next time…peace to all.
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